Flawed shopping cart coupon code - Legal question

Discussion in 'Ethical hacking' started by anonwig, Dec 13, 2009.

  1. anonwig

    anonwig New Member

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    So with some pretty basic prodding of a shopping cart source code I found a .JS file with a list of all the coupon codes encoded as b64 md5 hashes.

    Above each was a description - and from the description I could guess a coupon code.

    Have I done anything illegal? Would it be illegal if I ordered using such a discount code? Would the retailer have to fulfil the order?

    Thanks in advance
     
  2. shabbir

    shabbir Administrator Staff Member

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    Ask the support of the shopping cart provider if they have some coupons and if your one matches with the ones they suggest use it.
     
  3. anonwig

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    I think you've misunderstood my post - I've guessed a coupon code which would give me a large discount (anything up to 99%) - is it legal to use it? does the retailer have to fulfil the order?
     

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